While many foundations focus on writing cheques, the Lo Kwee Seong Foundation increasingly sees itself as an incubator of ideas, funding experiments, testing models and helping innovations move from research labs into the real world.
Singapore's new single family office framework is expected to accelerate family office formation, but industry participants say the bigger significance lies in how it strengthens the city-state's position in an increasingly competitive battle for global private capital.
While impact investing gains traction among Asia's wealthy families, the Lo Kwee Seong Foundation is charting a different course, placing a clear distinction between business returns and charitable giving at the core of its philosophy.
As sustainability investing matures, Raintree family office shares how it is building stricter frameworks around impact measurement, return expectations and climate-focused capital deployment.
A third-generation Hong Kong family member says the industry’s investment-first model ignores the real drivers of wealth survival — governance, values, and family cohesion.
The most coveted late-stage investment opportunities in Asia rarely need family office capital. The firms that are getting in are offering something else entirely.
Mephezalea has reduced its exposure to fixed income and moved the allocation towards Infrastructure Investment Trusts, which it says is a higher-yield alternative of the same credit quality.
As artificial intelligence accelerates, one family office outlines how frontier technologies, public markets and collaboration shape its long-term allocation strategy.
Hong Kong's 2026 budget has introduced long-awaited tax clarity for digital assets, bringing crypto within the scope of established fund and reporting frameworks.
Norway's SWF excludes India's Adani Green Energy from its portfolio; Australia's Aware Super scraps restrictions on high-carbon companies' investment; and more
Canadian pension La Caisse reportedly selling $1.5 billion in Chinese PE assets; Indonesian SWF Danantara eyes investment in national stock exchange; and more.